#difficult

"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."

"People will always have an opinion, but you have to live life the way you want to. It's very easy to tell others what to do, but difficult to implement it on yourself."

"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."

"We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up."

"It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal... one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly."

"When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome."

"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

"Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life."

"Friendship is a difficult, dangerous job. It is also (though we rarely admit it) extremely exhausting."

"I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this."

"I grew up in a family that was very barbed and difficult, and there was a lot of humor. None of it was painless humor. All of it was at someone else's expense. It was kind of always about power."

"Success is more difficult to handle than failure."

"Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be so easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder--if not impossible--to lose."

"As comedians, we are all laughing because life is so horrible. Life is so difficult, and I cope with it by making jokes about absolutely everything."

"Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort."

"Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor."

"Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult."

"I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good."

"I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring."

"Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax."